NEW DELHI (Reuters) - An Indian panel has violated
guidelines for ship-breaking laid down by India's Supreme Court
by approving the scrapping of a controversial Norwegian cruise
liner this week, an environmental alliance said on Thursday.

By Jim Loney MIAMI (Reuters) - A noted hurricane research team on
Thursday reduced its forecast for the Atlantic hurricane season
but said it would still be above average with 15 tropical
storms, seven of which would become hurricanes.

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Oil leaking from a bombed power station
in Lebanon has reached the coastline of neighboring Syria and
is spreading north, the Kenya-based United Nations Environment
Program (UNEP) said.